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Ashton Kutcher Threatens to Stop Tweeting Over Twitter TV

“It's all fun and games until somebody gets stalked.” That’s the last message posted to Twitter by its most followed user – Ashton Kutcher, aka @aplusk – nearly 24 hours ago. What the actor is referring to is the “Twitter TV Show” that really isn’t, and the implications it might have for the service.

In case you missed it, on Monday it was reported that Twitter and a production company were working on a television show that “harness[es] Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities.” Twitter quickly downplayed this, saying there is no official TV show, but confirmed that the company had indeed signed a deal with Reveille and Brillstein.

The funny thing about all of this is that a deal seemingly wouldn’t even be necessary – Twitter is a platform, and anyone could produce a show utilizing it as part of the plot. As one of many examples, Justin Timberlake and MTV incorporate Twitter in their new reality show, sans any apparent official deal with the microblogging service.

Perhaps Kutcher hasn’t yet seen Twitter’s official response to the Reveille show news, but tweeting “Wow I hope this isn't true. I really don't like being sold out. May have to take a twitter hiatus,” just doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense, unless of course it’s just another page out of the part of the celebrity playbook that keeps the media world talking about you – which, is precisely what we’re doing in publishing this post!

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